Kieron Galliard was born in 1980. It
was as a chorister at Lincoln Cathedral that he began his musical training,
but in 1993 he took up a place at Wells Cathedral School, specialising
in composition, and working with Jeffery Sharkey and Simon Dearsley.
In 1995 he became the first composition student to be awarded a Department
for Education grant for further study at Wells, and it was at the request
of a fellow student, harpist Deian Siôn
Rowlands, that Ensueño Español (Spanish Dream)
was written

The first performance was given in the concert hall of Wells Cathedral
School on 11 May 1996, and since then it has been widely played, including
performances in London, Paris and Madrid. Ensueño Español is
the first of Kieron Galliard's compositions to be published.